Ding Kuiling (; born March 1966) is a Chinese

organic chemist Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...

. He has been Executive Vice President of

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU; ) is a public research university in Shanghai, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university was established on April 8, 1896 as Nanyang Public School (南洋� ...

since October 2018, and formerly served as President of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. He is an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

Biography

Ding was born in March 1966 in

Yongcheng Yongcheng () is county-level city in Henan province, China, and is the easternmost county-level division of the province, bordering Anhui province on all sides except the northwest and due north. Yongcheng has significant coal deposits and some ins ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

, China. He earned his bachelor's degree from

Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University (), colloquially known in Chinese as Zhèngdà () and abbreviated as ZZU is a public university located in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Zhengzhou University is the largest university in China in terms of number of students (aroun ...

in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry of

Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU; ) is a national public research university in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is a member of C9 League and a Class A Double First Class University designated by the Chinese central government. NJU has two main campuses: the Xianl ...

in 1990. His doctoral advisor was Wu Yangjie. Ding became a faculty member of Zhengzhou University in 1990. He conducted postdoctoral research at

Ryukoku University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as a school for Buddhist priests of the Nishi Hongan-ji denomination in 1639, and became a secularized university in 1876. The university's professors and students founded the literary m ...

in Japan from 1993 to 1994, and was promoted to full professor of Zhengzhou University in 1995. From 1997 to 1998, he was a UNESCO fellow at

Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...

. In December 1998, he became a research professor at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. He served as President of the institute from 2009 to 2018. In October 2018, he was appointed Executive Vice President of

. Ding's research interests are

asymmetric catalysis Enantioselective synthesis, also called asymmetric synthesis, is a form of chemical synthesis. It is defined by IUPAC as "a chemical reaction (or reaction sequence) in which one or more new elements of chirality are formed in a substrate molecul ...

and

organometallics ''Organometallics'' is a biweekly journal published by the American Chemical Society. Its area of focus is organometallic and organometalloid chemistry. This peer-reviewed journal has an impact factor of 3.837 as reported by the 2021 Journal Citat ...

. He developed multiple

chiral Chirality is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word ''chirality'' is derived from the Greek (''kheir''), "hand", a familiar chiral object. An object or a system is ''chiral'' if it is distinguishable from ...

phosphine ligands that have been produced by chemical companies. He has received many awards, including the

State Natural Science Award The State Science and Technology Prizes () are the highest honors conferred by the national government of the People's Republic of China in science and technology, in order to recognize citizens and organizations who have made remarkable contribut ...

(Second Class), the Eli Lilly Scientific Excellence Award, the Yoshida Prize, and the

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Prize, the Humboldt-Forschungspreis in German, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of G ...

. He serves as an editor of more than ten international chemistry journals. He was elected an academician of the

in 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ding, Kuiling 1966 births Living people Chemists from Henan Chinese expatriates in Japan Educators from Henan Humboldt Research Award recipients Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing University alumni Organic chemists People from Shangqiu Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Zhengzhou University alumni Academic staff of Zhengzhou University